Earth-Venus smash-up possible in 3.5 billion years: study

[Steevo]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090610/sc_afp/scienceastronomyearthmercurymarsvenus


http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20090610/capt.photo_1244657276794-1-0.jpg




Start packing, this planet is going to shit soon!!! But look at the view the poor bastards left on earth will have. I think my aunt sue is visible in the picture they created, aunt sue, is that you?

[FordGT90Concept]

The Sun will probably become a red giant before then (consuming Mecury, Venus, Earth, and maybe Mars).

[From_Nowhere]

That's if humans are around by then. So don't worry, be happy. Those of us alive now will probably be dead or dying before the 22nd century.

[mlee49]

Well 3.5 Billion years is just a few generations, I think we'll be off Earth by then though ;)

[WhiteLotus]

I think we'll all be nuked by then...

[Chris]

Why do people actually take to study the causes 3.5 billion years from now? I believe in 3.5 billions years we will be so highly advanced life would have many different kinds of grills. Humans can now cook in the air!

[WhiteLotus]

cook in the air!

SWEET

[btarunr]

3.5 billion? It will be a miracle if mankind even survives 350 years on Earth.

Instead of discovering new habitable worlds, intelligent alien life, and means to get there, our money and resources are being spent on fighting eachother. As an intelligent life-form, mankind is proving to be a failure. An intelligent life-form is that which can quickly devise a way of migrating to a new substrate when it's aware it is running out on one. Currently only 10% of mankind's substrate is remaining.

[LittleLizard]

I'll be married with an asari by that time.